Too many Marines could capsize Guam....who knew?

By Crobar in Neurognosis

So apparently on March 25th of this year Representative Hank Johnson from Georgia, during a House Armed Services Committee meeting expressed concerns about moving 8,000 Marines and their families from Okinawa to Guam. If taken literally Rep. Johnson was concerned ...

Science and Engineering in the U.S. - NSF Indicators

By Crobar in Neurognosis

Unbeknownst to many, back in mid-January the National Science Foundation released its annual report on the state of science and engineering here in the United States. For the past near decade the Science and Engineering Indictors have painted a uneventful ...

Parents and Gene to blame for ADHD in Children?

By Crobar in Neurognosis

A recent study published in the journal Behavioral and Brain Functions reports the results of an examination of a community sample of 304 youth. They were examined for particular polymorphisms of a serotonin transporter gene (5HTTLPR). This particular variant has ...

Trojan - more than just a condom

By Crobar in Neurognosis

I bet that title got your attention but I won't be talking about condoms. I'm sure most of you have heard of the epic poem The Illiad by Homer and its "sequel" the Odyssey. Many of you probably encountered it ...

To spank or not to spank?

By Crobar in Neurognosis

I recently ran across a study about spanking children. I didn't think too much of it as I was seduced by the article I previously blogged about regarding the breakthrough with mirror neurons. This morning on my way to work ...

I see what ya did there...and I feel ya...

By Crobar in Neurognosis

Back in the late 80's and early 90's a group of Italian scientists were measuring neuronal responses in Macaques (an old world monkey). They found, curiously, that a particular area of neurons would fire when the monkey would simply watch ...

Another one to add to the Australopithecus bunch

By Crobar in Neurognosis

For a while in the scientific community a question has gone without answer and caused much debate. That question being, which hominid genus gave rise to our own Homo genus? Many scientists have long contended that Homo evolved from the ...

Since it's too long for a comment...

By Crobar in Neurognosis

I tried to post my thoughts on a blog by another reader, unfortunately I think my comment was too long and it would not post. So I figured I would just post it here. This is in response to a ...

Stress and neuronal growth and growing bones on demand

By Crobar in Neurognosis

One of the big things the military has going on in research is in the area of stress resilience. I actually wrote up a proposal for prophylactic measures to foster resilience not too long ago - still don't know if ...